Klinik Kesihatan Archives

10 October 2024

Malaysia

MP Wants GLIC Investments In Mobile Wound Care Units To Decongest Klinik Kesihatan

Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee has called on GLICs to invest in mobile wound care units to alleviate congestion in public health clinics, amid Malaysia's "health care crisis", the rise of NCDs, and the ageing status of the population.

14 August 2024

Malaysia

MOH Slammed For ‘Gaslighting’ Medical Officer Caring For Her Baby With Chickenpox

Malaysians have condemned JKN Sarawak's "attack" on a woman medical officer who complained that her husband (an MO in a Klinik Kesihatan) was forced to bring their 8-month-old baby with chickenpox to work. MOH said quarantine leave can be taken "in turns".

6 August 2024

Malaysia

Dzulkefly Restores 90-Day Maternity Leave For Hulu Langat Medical Officers After Backlash

Dr Dzul announces the restoration of 90-day maternity leave for MOs in Klinik Kesihatan in Hulu Langat. He claims this reinstatement was made earlier, despite a JKNS statement last Aug 3 justifying Hulu Langat PKD's maternity leave restriction to 60 days.

6 August 2024

Malaysia

WAO: Medical Officers’ Shortened Maternity Leave Discourages Women From Health Care Workforce

WAO says cutting medical officers' maternity leave from 90 to 60 days discourages women from remaining in or joining the health workforce, subsequently worsening existing staff shortages in the health service. The government should emulate best practices.

5 August 2024

Malaysia

Cuepacs: Cutting Doctors’ Maternity Leave Violates Workers’ Rights

Cuepacs describes the restriction of medical officers' maternity leave to 60 days, although technically legal, as a violation of workers' rights. The civil servants' union points out that health workers are human beings who need rest and have families too.

3 August 2024

Malaysia

MOH Justifies Maternity Leave Restriction: Seven Medical Officers Took Simultaneous Maternity Leave

In justifying maternity leave restriction to 60 days for medical officers in Klinik Kesihatan in Hulu Langat, MOH says 7 MOs took simultaneous maternity leave in a few KKs. Some MOs who were instructed to report for duty had also rejected their placements.

2 August 2024

Malaysia

Hulu Langat PKD Caps Medical Officers’ Maternity Leave At 60 Days Amid ‘Critical Shortage’ In Klinik Kesihatan

Hulu Langat PKD has capped maternity leave to 60 days for all medical officers in klinik kesihatan in the district, due to a "critical shortage" of MOs in all KKs. Under the Employment Act, private sector employees are entitled to 98 days' maternity leave.

23 July 2024

Malaysia

Klinik Kesihatan Extended Hours Shift System May Force 30 Minutes ‘Free’ Labour

An MO at a KK in Selangor says the new shift system by Hulu Langat PKD for extended hours (EH) duty (5pm-9pm and 5.30pm-9.30pm) may force 30 minutes' "free" labour, as MOs might not finish on time. MOH has capped locum allowance claims for EH to 4 hours.

15 May 2024

Malaysia

MOH To Provide HIV Drug PrEP In All Klinik Kesihatan

MOH plans to provide HIV prevention drug PrEP at all public health clinics nationwide. A prelim report shows over 3,000 people accessed PrEP in the pilot phase of the programme; among those who completed 6 months, the HIV transmission rate was only 0.2%.

15 March 2024

Malaysia

Extended Hours: Doctors’ Locum Allowance Expanded To Weekends (Sundays/ Fridays), Pharmacists And X-Ray Technicians Get Locum Allowance Too

YBTMK Lukanisman and an MOH TKSU circular announce new RM25/hr locum allowance for pharmacists & X-ray technicians, as well as expansion of the RM80/hr locum allowance for doctors to Sunday/ Friday, for extended hours work at KKs & outpatient clinic at ED.

Tag: Klinik Kesihatan

MP Wants GLIC Investments In Mobile Wound Care Units To Decongest Klinik Kesihatan

MOH Slammed For ‘Gaslighting’ Medical Officer Caring For Her Baby With Chickenpox

Dzulkefly Restores 90-Day Maternity Leave For Hulu Langat Medical Officers After Backlash

WAO: Medical Officers’ Shortened Maternity Leave Discourages Women From Health Care Workforce

Cuepacs: Cutting Doctors’ Maternity Leave Violates Workers’ Rights

MOH Justifies Maternity Leave Restriction: Seven Medical Officers Took Simultaneous Maternity Leave

Hulu Langat PKD Caps Medical Officers’ Maternity Leave At 60 Days Amid ‘Critical Shortage’ In Klinik Kesihatan

Klinik Kesihatan Extended Hours Shift System May Force 30 Minutes ‘Free’ Labour

MOH To Provide HIV Drug PrEP In All Klinik Kesihatan

Extended Hours: Doctors’ Locum Allowance Expanded To Weekends (Sundays/ Fridays), Pharmacists And X-Ray Technicians Get Locum Allowance Too

MMC-Registered Medical Graduates Nearly Halved In Six Years

Help, I’m Forced To Work Every Day — Sibu Hospital Medical Officer

Six Nurses’ Groups Oppose 45-Hour Work Week Under SSPA Shift System

MMA Launching ‘Black Monday’ Protest To ‘Save’ GPs

Rising Health Insurance Premiums Benefit Insurers And Hospitals — Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan Abdul Rahman